Milestone Papers

The year 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the four journals Physical Review A, B, C, and D, and to celebrate the editors put together a selection of milestone papers that announce major discoveries or open up new research avenues in the fields each journal covers (the lists are on the APS website at https://journals.aps.org/about).

Physics faculty members Thomas Papenbrock and Robert Grzywacz both had papers in the milestone collection for Phys. Rev. C (nuclear physics):

Ab initio coupled-cluster approach to nuclear structure with modern nucleon-nucleon interactions
G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock, D. J. Dean, and M. Hjorth-Jensen
Phys. Rev. C 82, 034330 (2010)

First observation of two-proton radioactivity in 48Ni
M. Pomorski, M. Pfützner, W. Dominik, R. Grzywacz, T. Baumann, J. S. Berryman, H. Czyrkowski, R. Dąbrowski, T. Ginter, J. Johnson, G. Kamiński, A. Kuźniak, N. Larson, S. N. Liddick, M. Madurga, C. Mazzocchi, S. Mianowski, K. Miernik, D. Miller, S. Paulauskas, J. Pereira, K. P. Rykaczewski, A. Stolz, and S. Suchyta
Phys. Rev. C 83, 061303 (2011)

In Phys. Rev. D (covering particle physics, quantum field and string theory, gravitation, cosmology, and particle astrophysics) UT was represented by Professor Stefan Spanier, former Postdocs Keith Rose and Zongchang Yang, and Graduate Student (now PhD alumnus), Andrew York as part of the CMS Collaboration with the paper:

Measurement of the properties of a Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state
S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 89, 092007 (2014)

In other APS journal news, Professor Hanno Weitering was named an APS Outstanding Referee for 2020. This highly selective program recognized 147 referees for the year based on the quality, number, and timeliness of their reports. Honorees came from more than 50 countries and were chosen without regard for APS membership status or their respective fields of research.